Cacik

Name: Cacik
Prep time: 32 min
Total time: 32 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Turkish
Ingredients: 1.1 lb plain yogurt; 2 tsp lemon juice; 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil; 1 tbsp dried mint; 1 cucumber; 2 cloves garlic

An easy Turkish lunch. Ready in about 32 minutes. Difficulty: easy.

32 minPrep (about)
32 minTotal time
4Servings
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Ingredients

How many people?

− 2 people +

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Fresh & other

9 oz plain yogurt Shopping tip: Plain yogurt (UK: natural yogurt).
1 tsp lemon juice
1 cucumber
1 clove garlic

Sauces & oils

1 ½ tsp extra virgin olive oil

Spices & seasonings (1): dried mint

1 ½ tsp dried mint

How to make it

Steps in our own plain words.

Put a sieve over a big bowl, line it using thick sheet of non- kitchen paper or a clean muslin cloth.
Spoon in the yogurt.
Cover with another sheet of kitchen paper.
Leave to strain in your fridge for a minimum of 12 hrs.
Add your lemon juice, most of your olive oil plus the dried mint to a bowl.
Mix fully for your dried mint to soften plus soak up the juices.
Mix in the strained yogurt.
Pour away the strained yogurt liquid.
Leave that bowl to one side.
Halve the cucumber lengthways.
Remove your seeds by running teaspoon from top to the bottom of your flesh, halve your cucumbers widthways to make them shorter plus easier to handle.
Coarsely grate every one in the bowl the yogurt was straining over.
Squeeze as much of your liquid out of the cucumber as possible using clean hands.
Add your strained, grated cucumber, garlic plus ¾ tsp flaky salt to the rest of your ingredients.
Mix well.
Top using drizzle of extra virgin olive oil plus a sprinkling of dried mint.